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Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
$32.99 AUD
$36.99 (10% off)
Category: Biography
Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did th ...Show more
Blake by Peter Ackroyd
$29.95 AUD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: Fiction
A biography of William Blake who was a poet, painter, engraver and visionary.
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd
$24.95 AUD
$34.00 (26% off)
Category: Biography
Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This is a specially edited shorter version of the title that ties-in with the 3-part series on BBC 2 shown in March 2002. It takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers and is a study of both a culture and period, a ...Show more
Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from Caldera, a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered. ...Show more
Shakespeare - Die Biographie by Peter Ackroyd
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus. With char ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales: Retelling by Peter Ackroyd by Peter Ackroyd
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics
"The Canterbury Tales" is a major part of England's literary heritage. From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, these tales can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London. Incorporating every style of medieval narrative - bawdy anecdote, allegorica ...Show more
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
$32.95 AUD
$34.99 (5% off)
Category: Fiction
"It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window and had been struck by his auburn locks." The long-haired poet - 'Mad Shelley' - and the serious-minded student from Switzer ...Show more
The Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd
$24.95 AUD
$27.00 (7% off)
Category: Fiction
'I cannot wait to bring you to the plain of Troy. To show you the place where Hector and Achilles fought. To show you the palace of Priam. And the walls where the Trojan women watched their warriors in battle with the invader. It will stir your blood, Sophia.' Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the Germ ...Show more
Turner by Peter Ackroyd
$27.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Brief Lives
James Mallord William Turner was a Londoner through and through. His father had a barber's shop in Covent Garden, his mother came from a line of London butchers. He was brought up in Maiden Lane (the family moving at some point from the south side of the street to the north side). He was short and pugna ...Show more
Venice Pure City by Peter Ackroyd
$69.95 AUD
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Category: Travel
In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty, set like a jewel in its glistening lagoon. His account is at once romantic and packed with facts, conjuring up the atmosphe ...Show more
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